marsalli27

Oh boy! What a trip..vacation and now home to a flooded and stinky apartment!! Well vacation was excellent...We visited with my brother and his girlfriend in South Carolina. Ben used to be stationed there so there was no stress over how to get around while we were down there. Disney World was really nice...Hunter had such a great time and it was so good to see Ben's family again and meet some new family members. We ended up staying an extra day because Ben got the stomach bug and couldn't travel for 24hrs. We arrived home just after midnight on Christmas Eve morning to a flooded and still flooding apartment..broken fitting on the water heater...so the water just kept coming in. The apartment SMELLS horrible!! They are replacing all the carpeting on Monday which is a plus...another plus is that none of our stuff was damaged. All the Christmas presents were still in the closet and we had cleaned the entire apartment before we left so there were no toys or video games on the floor in the living room. It could have been much worse. The landlord is taking care of everything expense wise and we didn't even have to use our renters insurance! If you don't have renters insurance I recommend paying the $80/year and protecting your stuff!!
Christmas itself was hard this year..Hunter was at his Dad's all weekend while I worked. There were a lot of tears on my end. This is the first year that I haven't at least had him for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. He did have a great time and Santa brought him a lot of toys at his Dad's. We celebrated our Christmas on Monday.. Hunter got so many presents from Ben's family he actually got tired of opening presents and needed a break Tuesday night we celebrated with my family over a nice pasta dinner and Hunter opened even more presents.

I was totally spoiled this Christmas..Ben got me a diamond necklace which is beautiful! When I said I don't have anything to wear it with he said diamonds are like jeans they go with everything. He also assured me that it is insured so I don't have to worry about losing it. Did I mention that the jewelry was just a stocking stuffer..I also got a ton of stuff that I asked for ...rice cooker, new slow cooker and slow cooker recipe book. Tons of lotions and body butters for my growing belly..hoping to avoid as many stretch marks as I can. Ben also bought me some new bras with matching thongs...he did a really good job they are very pretty

Well I hope to get pictures up sometime soon from our vacation and Christmas...I hope everyone had a terrific holiday!!